Daughters and identities --
Education and apprenticeship -- Inheritance, dowry, and
dower -- The formation of
marriage -- Recovery of dower and widows'
remarriage -- For better or for worse : the marital
experience -- Standard of living and women as consumers --
Women as entrepreneurs -- Servants, casual labor, and
vendors

Widows and remarriage: moral
conflicts and their resolution in classical canon law /
James A. Brundage--Fifteenth-century widows and widowhood:
bereavement, reintegration, and life choices / Joel T.
Rosenthal--Rationabilis dos: Magna Carta and the widow's
"fair share" in the earlier thirteenth century / Janet
Senderowitz Loengard--Litigation as personal quest: suing
for dower in the royal courts, circa 1272-1350 / Sue
Sheridan Walker--Widows of war: Edward I and the women of
Scotland during the War of Independence / Cynthia J.
Neville--Remarriage as an option for urban and rural widows
in late medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt--Married
women's wills in later medieval England / Richard H.
Helmholz--Female plaintiffs in marriage cases in the court
of York in the later Middle Ages: what can we learn from the
numbers? / Charles Donahue, Jr